If there’s to be a singular automotive theme guiding us into this second decade of the 21st century, it’s downsizing. If not in dimensions, then in displacement.

In a unique effort Audi has created its signature sound: from music to voicemail.

All new Audi A8 2011 Production and Quality Plant

Filed under: Hatchback , Audi , Rumormill , Electric Audi A1 e-tron concept – Click above for high-res image gallery The original, all-aluminum Audi A2 was a unique beast, which Heinrich Timm, Audi’s head of lightweight design, maintains was ahead of its time. However, the rumored 2012 A2 is likely to utilize a steel unibody platform, and the latest reports indicate that Audi’s mini-lux will have a new reason for being special. Autocar quotes anonymous sources who say the next A2 could be Audi’s first electric-only vehicle

Filed under: Sedan , Technology , Audi , Luxury 2011 Audi A8 – Click above for high-res image gallery One day, we’ll be able to have wireless internet access from nearly every point on the globe.

More tech in your car? Oh, that’s inevitable. But automakers are trying to figure out the best way to implement it. There are two main architectures currently;

From the front, high three-quarter angle, Daniel Garcia’s Audi A9 concept is a little too reminiscent of BMW’s Vision EfficientDynamics Concept. Yet, as is the case with so many geniune Audis

When Audi says it is going to have apps available for download to its cars by the end of the decade, it doesn’t mean an app like Bejeweled 2 – it means an app like heated seats.

According to Avus Performance, its tweaked Audi S4 has had the engine performance adjusted accordingly to expedite the 20×9-inch CC-line wheels properly.

The 2011 A8 is the harbinger of things to come from Audi’s award winning interiors, and the release of an additional spy shot of the S7’s insides proves